Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-08-25
FARM AND GARDEN.
BupprSG FRUIT E

bv the budding process. and even
for plums, pears and apples many
think 1t easier and quicker TO set a bud
than a graft. The work is easily
lone and easily learned.
LEAKY BARNS.
Few farmers like the job OF patching
roofs. but none is more important III
a crop is not secure when in the barn
Il had better be standing in the lot A
hole in the roof will. during a smart
shower, pour a stream of water through
on hay or grain below, often wetting
il to the bottom. A very short time
and a few shingles will temporarily re-
piar such leaks.
THREE-HoRsE TEAMS.
In blowing. cultivating or any other
heavy work three horses should be
used wherever possible. 1t is poor
policy to pay men high wages and then
having them idle because the team is IN
efficient. Most two-horse implements do
more efficient work when three horses
are attached to them. although our
best American plows do Better work
with less draught han those OF foreign
manufacture.
CORN IN A DROUGHT.
Corn loves hot weather; but II too
lry the leaves curl and the corn begins
tassclling prematurely. Even with
olenty of rains afterwards, the yield OF
such corn Is decreased. and there is apt
o be more grain not filled out on the
Job. Probably the effect of unnatural
extremes of weather is to divorce the
asset and silk, so that they do not put
out at nearly the same time as they
naturally should.
CORN TURNING YELLOW.
When sowed corn begins to turn yell
iow from beng sown too thickly, it
soon ceases to acquire any additional
value. Not only does growth cease.
out the plant becomes watery and in
,ipid. Cows will eat il, but their milk
viii shrink as compared with even fair
pasture. To give really nutritious
stalks. sowed or drilled corn should
lave room enough to grow in. so that
most of the stalks would at least set a
aubbin. When this is the case there is
, great amount of sweet in the stalk.
HIGH PRICE FOR EARLY POTATOES.
Owing to the scarcity of potatoes
last Spring. those who had an extra
Early piece of new potatoes have been
able almost anywhere to make a good
hing out of it. The Southern supply
has not filed tire market as usual, and
~snterprising Northern growers have
had a better chance. l. seems a pity to
Zig potatoes before they have finished
growing, but when they bring twice or
perhaps three times the price they
will later in the season, it pays. in
some places crops of $50 bushels per
acre nave brought more than as many
dollars.
cows IN p ORCHARDS.
When the fruit begin to fall, cows
should be kept out of apple orchards.
Green apples are not very nutritious,
though cows, like young boys, will eat
hem b. the wholesale. 1t is the un-
equal supply that does COWS the most
lamage. A few apples each day will
10 them no harm. But any day there
S liable to occur a wind-storm which
may blow off one.third to one-half the
fruit on the trees. A COW will then
gorge herself SO as to stop her flow of
milk almost entirely; and only with
great care in feeding can it be restored.
md never up to the amount before she
Tried off.
T~oP-DREssISG FLOWED GROUND.
II is saving of labor to draw out
manure and then pillow it under for
wheat But when this is admitted. the
sum of the advantages of this plan is
exhausted, Under the furrow coarse
manure may be absolutely Injurious,
As it will keep the soil too light. For
distributing manure IN land plowed for
wheat, the regular manure spreaders
with wide tires are greatly superior to
wagons. They not only cover the
ground more evenly aud save labor,
put their broad tires compact the
groud without cuttin . into it deeply.
Thus, even when not distributing ma
nure, these spreaders are fitting the
and to produce a better crop.
REMOVING GRAPE YIN LEAVES
Some people have an idea that grapes
are ripened by the heat of the sun shin
ing upon them, and therefore cut and
slash their grapevines during the latter
part of the summer. The leaves of the
vine are its lungs. They are essential
to perfecting the fruit, especially the
leaf opposite the bunch, which is most
likely to be cut away in mistaken zeal
for letting in sunlight; without this leaf
the bunch will ripen slowly and never
attain its best flavor. Too much cut
ting away of the vines is apt to start
dormant buds and thus ruin the crop
for next year. Only pinching the eud
of the vine at midsummer to stop its
growth is allowable.
CAREFUL MILKING.
If every drop of milk in a cows nd
der be not carefully removed at each
milking, the secretion will gradually
diminish in proportion to the quantity
left behind. Milking should be conduc-
ted with skill and tenderness. All
chucking or plucking !. he teats
should be avoided. A gen. and ex-
pert mixer will not only cleer the I'D
der with greater ease than q rrugh in
experienced person. but will do so
with far more comfort TO the COW, who
will stand pleased and quiet, placidly
chewing the cud, and testifying by her
manner and attitude that she exper-
fences pleasure rather than annoyance
from the operation. Cows will not
yield their milk to a person they dislike
or dread.
MOISTURE IN NEW A
Hay is not generally so much cheaper
when newly gathered into the barn as |
it is supposed TO be. 1t has two large a
proportion of moisture. Even when
what is called thoroughly dry, the ex.
ira weight above what it would show
next Spring reveals the presence Of
water. often $50 to 200 pounds per ton.
Most new hay is somewhat laxative for
horses at work, and so also are new
oats. II hay is new, the pats should,
II possible. be of the previous years
growth. A small ration OF old oats